The Earl of Arran
Baroness Byford
The Earl of Caithness
Lord Cameron of Dillington (Chairman)
Lord Cavendish of Furness (from 23 October 2017)
Viscount Chandos (from 18 October 2017)
Lord Faulkner of Worcester
Lord Foster of Bishop Auckland
Lord Harrison (until 18 October 2017)
The Countess of Mar
Baroness Parminter
Baroness Scott of Bybrook (until 23 October 2017)
Baroness Scott of Needham Market
Baroness Whitaker
Earl of Arran
Member, Countryside Alliance, Country Land and Business Association and National Trust
Family farming interests in Devon. Land includes rights of way.
Baroness Byford
Family farming interests in Suffolk. Land includes rights of way.
President, Royal Agricultural Societies of England
Member, Country Land and Business Association, Countryside Alliance, National Farmers Union, National Trust
Secretary, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Rural Services
Vice President, Leicestershire and Rutland Rural Community Council
President, Suffolk Agricultural Association
Earl of Caithness
Vice Patron of a charitable trust, in Scotland, which owns land and benefits from EU grants. Land includes rights of way.
Member, Countryside Alliance.
Lord Cameron of Dillington
Former Chair of the Countryside Agency and an Ex-Rural Advocate.
Landowning and farming interests in receipt of environmental payments. Land includes rights of way.
Chair, Strategic Advisory Board, Government Global Food Security Programme
Chair, The Advisory Board of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Member, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Countryside Alliance, Country Land and Business Association, National Farmers Union, National Trust and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Lawes Trustee, Rothamsted Research.
Lord Cavendish of Furness
Beneficiary of family trusts and companies concerned with landowning and farming interests in receipt of environmental payments; landlord / tenant relationships (including lease(s) to Natural England and Cumbria Wildlife Trust; mineral extraction; tourism and leisure; horseracing; shooting and fishing and forestry. Land includes rights of way.
Member, Angling Trust, British Association for Shooting and Conservation, Country Land and Business Association, Countryside Alliance, Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Cumbria Woodlands, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust, Green Lanes Environmental Action Movement, Moorland Association, National Trust, North Lonsdale Agricultural Society and Salmon and Trout Association
President, Cark and District Angling Association, Dry Stone Walling Association and Grange and Wildfowlers Association
Former President and Patron, Cartmel Agricultural Society
Chairman, Leven Angling Association
Closely involved in negotiations with Natural England on coastal access in Cumbria.
Viscount Chandos
Trustee, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust. Both fund a wide range of environmental charities in the UK.
Lord Faulkner of Worcester
President, Heritage Railway Association
Chairman, Great Western Railway Advisory Board
President, Cotswold Line Promotion Group
Member, National Trust and English Heritage
Vice President, Campaign for Better Transport.
Lord Foster of Bishop Auckland
No relevant interests declared.
Lord Harrison
No relevant interests declared.
Countess of Mar
Husband owns 110 acres of land, 10 of which are woodland managed for wildlife, 20 for grass, currently let, which receive EU subsidy and 80 of which are arable land, let to a long-term tenant. Land includes rights of way. Husband is also the owner of buildings let to a farm and countryside store. The Countess of Mar benefits indirectly from these incomes.
Baroness Parminter
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Defra in the House of Lords (Interest ceased October 2017).
Member, National Trust and Surrey Wildlife Trust.
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Leader, Wiltshire Council
Vice President, Local Government Association
Member of Executive, County Councils Network
Spokesperson, County Councils Network.
Baroness Scott of Needham Market
Deputy Chair, Harwich Haven Authority
Member, Suffolk Wildlife Trust and Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Trustee, Community Action Suffolk, which receives a grant from Defra under the funding stream for ACRE.
Baroness Whitaker
Vice President and former President of the South Downs Society
Resident of a village in the South Downs National Park
Member, Ouse and Adur Rivers Trust
Chair, Newhaven Coastal Communities Team
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A full list of Members’ interests can be found in the Register of Lords Interests: http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-interests/register-of-lords-interests/
Professor Maria Lee (Specialist Adviser)
Professor of Law, Vice-Dean, Co-director of the Centre for Law and the Environment, Faculty of Laws, University College London
Occasional work with the Brexit Scenarios Group of Greener UK (unpaid)
Member, Academic Panel of Francis Taylor Building, Barristers Chamber
Editorial Committee and Director, Modern Law Review
Editorial Committee, Journal of Environmental Law
Executive Committee, Society of Legal Scholars
Member, UK Environmental Law Association, Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust, National Trust, Ramblers Association and Amnesty International.
Professor Mark Shucksmith OBE (Specialist Adviser)
Professor of Planning and Director of Newcastle University Institute for Social Renewal, Newcastle University.
Newcastle University receives funding from the European Commission and ESRC for research into rural policy, with which Professor Shucksmith is involved.
Trustee, Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE)
Trustee, Carnegie UK Trust
Member of Stakeholder Group, Rural England
Formerly Board member of Countryside Agency (2005–06) and Commission for Rural Communities (2006–13).